Product Manager (EdTech)

Location: Must be based in the Netherlands; fully remote. Availability required for 9:00 AM–1:00 PM Pacific Time overlap, with recurring U.S. meetings generally between 9:00 AM and 11:00 AM PT.

Base salary: USD 40,000–50,000 per year, depending on experience and location.

Company

hirify.global uses an AI-powered matching process to connect candidates with partner companies; the partner company manages applications and next steps.

What you will do

• Own and continuously prioritize the product backlog, including bugs, feature requests, operational requirements, and stakeholder feedback.
• Translate business needs, user feedback, and operational pain points into PRDs, feature briefs, user stories, engineering tickets, and acceptance criteria.
• Break larger initiatives into practical, shippable phases while managing scope, dependencies, priorities, and delivery status.
• Partner with engineering and UX/design teams to assess feasibility, clarify requirements, resolve blockers, and prepare work for development.
• Coordinate QA, verify fixes and new functionality, and support release readiness through permissions, access rules, cohort logic, phased rollouts, and post-launch monitoring.
• Communicate launches and feature updates, monitor post-release feedback, and turn recurring issues into future product improvements.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in product management, product operations, technical project management, or a comparable software-related role.
• Experience managing and prioritizing a product backlog in a software development environment.
• Strong experience writing PRDs, feature specifications, engineering tickets, user stories, acceptance criteria, or technical documentation.
• Ability to translate complex business or user needs into clear, actionable requirements for engineering and design teams.
• Experience collaborating with engineering, UX/design, customer-facing teams, operations, and other cross-functional stakeholders.
• Excellent organization, written and verbal communication, attention to detail, scope management, and execution skills in a remote-first environment.

Nice to have

• Experience in EdTech, admissions, coaching, student platforms, or service-oriented products.
• Familiarity with ClickUp, Jira, Linear, Asana, Notion, Slack, Figma, or similar tools.
• Experience with phased releases, permissions, access rules, cohort-based rollouts, entitlement logic, QA coordination, or release readiness.
• Familiarity with AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, or Cursor for product documentation, research, ticket writing, and product operations.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time remote work in a distributed environment collaborating across Europe and the United States.
• Bi-weekly payroll with 26 pay periods per year.
• Paid training, paid time off, and paid holidays.
• Flexible remote-first working environment with long-term career development opportunities.
• Collaborative, mission-driven work influencing the digital experience of students, families, coaches, and internal teams.
• Performance bonus may be available based on individual and organizational performance.

Hiring process

• hirify.global reviews applications using an AI-powered matching process and shares a shortlist with the hiring company.
• The hiring company manages interviews, assessments, final decisions, and next steps.